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PROGRAM GUIDE + MAP

Browse featured presenters and makers across 8 stages and more than 500 exhibits, and a map of Maker Faire Bay Area 2019. Downloadable PDF!

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PROGRAM GUIDE + MAP

EXHIBITS + MAKERS

Check out the full lineup of exhibitors and makers coming to MFBA19!

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EXHIBITS + MAKERS

SCHEDULE: STAGES

Browse the full schedule for 8+ stages brimming with presentations, performances, and how-tos across science, art, craft and engineering.

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SCHEDULE: STAGES

The Future We Make: Explore The 2019 Highlights

New Tech

The future of 3D printing (spoiler: it’s now), AI, machine learning, open-source, digital fabrication, microcontrollers, DIY drones, the “right” to repair, and more.

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New Tech

Hands-On Workshops

Lacemaking, felting, laser cutting, soldering, light saber training, unicorns, breadboards, and more. Plus 40 advance-registration workshops for more in-depth, hands-on experiences.

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Hands-On Workshops

Art + Spectacle

Giant sculptures, kinetic art, and racing mechs: meet some of the fantastic (and fantastical) works coming to Maker Faire Bay Area this year.

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Art + Spectacle

Make: Space

From projects that bring the cosmos to the classroom, to startups and venerable players pursuing innovative and beneficial commercial endeavors, the space community has new ventures happening on all sides.

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Make: Space

Climate Protection

Solving the world’s largest problem takes agile and open minds, prowess and fluency in technology, and interdisciplinary thinking. Climate protection is on the mind and in the hands of makers at Maker Faire Bay Area 2019.

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Climate Protection

Cosplay Contest

Makers! Cosplayers! Show off your masks, your wands, your headgear, your swords, your arsenal, and your amazing accessories! Enjoy an appreciative audience and community of makers with a fantastic selection of prop makers and expert judges at Maker Faire Bay Area.

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Cosplay Contest

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Our Featured Presenters: Makers on the Frontiers of Thinking and Doing

Melodie Yashar

Adam Savage

Saul Griffith

Brent Bushnell

Sophy Wong

Graham Hawkes

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Check out hundreds of hands-on and interactive exhibits ● Explore 8 stages brimming with presentations, performances and how-tos across science, art, craft and engineering ● See Adam Savage’s inspiring “Sunday Sermon” ● Try your hand at circuitry, lace making, and light saber training ● Get up close to the newest Maker tech tools & platforms ● Hone your drone operator chops with the Museum of Future Sports ● Explore mobile architecture in the Tiny Home Zone ● Witness physical feats of flex and power on the Dance Battle stage ● Shop for handmade and hard-to-find crafts at the SFBazaar ● Big art! Droids! Robots! Racecars! Drones! Fire! ● Glimpse the future and get inspired at Maker Faire!

 

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Meet the 2019 Makers

Prosthesis: The Anti-Robot

Prosthesis is the world's first 100% human controlled, 100% electric powered off-road racing mech. It is a celebration of human skill in unison with high technology and is the flagship machine in a quest to make mech racing a reality.

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Prosthesis: The Anti-Robot

BayLUG (Bay Area LEGO Users Group)

An exhibit of LEGO creations by members of BayLUG (Bay Area LEGO Users Group).There will be static as well as moving displays like trains, robotics, fairground rides, great ball contraption. For the Maker Faire visitors there is a LEGO Play area

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BayLUG (Bay Area LEGO Users Group)

African Clean Energy

The African Clean Energy ACE-1 is an integrated home energy system designed to help save millions of lives and curb deforestation in the developing world. SDG ACE Foundation helps the poorest to access this life-changing technology.

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African Clean Energy

Rearing Horse

Rearing Horse is a 14.5 foot tall kinetic horse sculpture made of found objects and some new metal. Movements can be controlled by turning cranks on the perimeter fence.

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Rearing Horse

Space and Earth Science

Connect with experiments running on the International Space Station! See a live view of earth from space. Investigate life and other research in microgravity. Make moon craters! Also: Can you survive the astronaut challenge?

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Space and Earth Science

Steam power by KSW

Come see how things were done over 100 years ago! See lumbering steam engines turn water and wood into heat, power, and electricity! Print your own Maker Faire drink coaster. Watch the gears turn on our 12 foot orrery and feel the foundry in action!

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Steam power by KSW

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